Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus to increase efficiency in a power factor correction circuit
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Application No.: US14805228Application Date: 2015-07-21
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Publication No.: US09618955B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Roland Sylvere Saint-Pierre
- Applicant: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP
- Main IPC: H02M1/42
- IPC: H02M1/42 ; G05F1/70

Abstract:
A power factor correction (PFC) controller includes a driver circuit coupled to vary the switching frequency of the power switch of the PFC converter in response to an input current of a PFC converter and an input voltage of the PFC converter, and to output a third signal to switch the power switch of the PFC converter to control the input current to substantially follow the input voltage. A frequency adjust circuit is coupled to receive an error voltage signal representative of an output of the PFC converter. The frequency adjust circuit is further coupled to output an adjusted error signal to adjust the end of the off time of the power switch of the PFC converter in response to the error voltage signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150323949A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY IN A POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2015-11-12
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